Gags Gift
by Brett on 06.28.09, 3:30 am
Michael “Gags30″ Gagliano has gone on a massive rush since the dinner break in the $1.5K No Limit Hold ‘em event. We caught up with the online star winning a monster pot just before his table broke at the end of Level 9.
With the blinds at 400/800 Gagliano opened to 2K from under the gun and the player to his direct left raised to 5.4K, leaving around 12K behind. Action folded back to Gagliano, who pushed a tall stack of 1K and 500 chips into the middle of the pot, effectively putting his opponent all in, and the other player called:
Gagliano: K
K
Opponent: Q
Q
The board ran out J765
J and Gagliano won a pot worth more than 35K, increasing his stack to 48K. We’ve since seen him at his new table abusing the three short stacks to his left by shoving into them when he has an opportunity to open. Good luck, short stacks.
Across the room we caught up with an interesting hand involving Jonathan “therookieqq9″ Plens and a man from Peru. First, a little background on the Peruvian fellow: We witnessed him slowrolling two opponents on separate occasions earlier in the day and then attempt to defend himself after the floor was called over despite speaking very little english. He doesn’t seem to have any clue what’s going on yet has been accumulating chips all day.
Back to the hand: Plens raised to 2.3K at 400/800 and a player in middle position moved all in for his last 700. Two people called, including the Pervian man on the button. The flop rolled out QJ2 and Plens bet 4.2K. His adversary called and the other player folded. On the K turn Plens moved all in for 39.8K, enough to put the Peruvian man all in. He thought for a minute before saying, “I bet…I call.”
He flipped over QT, which was ahead of the A2 semi-bluff of Plens. The J fell on the river, sending a huge pot over to a confused Pervian who thought Plens had mucked the winning hand. “I thought you had pocket aces,” he screamed for the whole Amazon Room to hear.
“If I had aces where do you think the chips would be?” replied a frustrated Plens. Jonathan was eliminated three hands later.
Also sent on their way during the past level were Bryan Micon, Mike “SirWatts” Watson, Jeff “jeffboski” Sluzinski and David “Doc_Sands” Sands.
With 380 players remining here’s a look at the P5ers still in the field:
Tom “titantom32″ Braband - 81K
Jason “JP OSU” Potter - 62K
Owen “ocrowe” Crowe - 55K
Mike “Gags30″ Gagliano - 50K
Scott “dorinvandy” Dorin - 38K
Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar - 30.5K
Grant “drossxyu” Hink - 28K
Shaun “Cougars4444″ Hendrickson - 25K
Michael “benvo123″ Benvenuti - 25K
Alex Jacob - 22K
Jason Gray - 22K
WSOP 2009 Event #50: $1.5K LHE Shootout
Six of the eight final table seats have been determined in the LHE Shootout and one of those chairs belongs to our own Matt “mattster24″ Sterling. Sterling wrapped up his heads-up match a little while ago and will return tomorrow at 2PM for the final table. Some other notable names joining him there are Greg “FBT” Mueller, David Williams, and the bracelet winner in the $2K LHE event, Marc Naalden.
